HOLLYWOOD: Strike in a Ghost Town

Actor Clifton Webb walked across the 20th Century-Fox lot one day last week and wept real tears. "It's so awful," said he, "everything has stopped. In the barbershop, no one talked."

Things have been pretty quiet in all the barbershops and all the studios for years, but after the Screen Actors Guild followed the screen writers and went on strike last week, Hollywood looked more than ever like a ghost town. It was the first time in Hollywood history that actors had walked out, although in the '30s and '40s there had been plenty of strikes by other movie...

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